Healing Hands: Harm Reduction
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Healing Hands: Treatment Models for Non-Opioid Substance Use Amongst Populations Experiencing Homelessness
This issue will focus a lens on treatment by first examining treatment models and pharmacological interventions for substance use disorder, followed by information about additional tools that may assist care providers in providing comprehensive client-centered, trauma-informed physical and mental health care and harm reduction interventions. This issue will focus on treatment options and models for
Healing Hands: Non-Opioid Substance Use, Mental Health, & Homelessness
This issue of Healing Hands will discuss the following: • The current opioid crisis in the United States; • The use of non-opioid substances amongst people experiencing homelessness; • Key issues that intersect with substance use and mental health in homeless populations; • Commonly-used substances such as alcohol, methamphetamines, cocaine and rock cocaine, and synthetic
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Healing Hands: Care Coordination
Over the past decades, care coordination models have emerged as important tools for health care providers working to better serve the needs of people experiencing homelessness. Historically, health care services have been segmented, meaning that a person seeking health care would have to go to one location for their primary care and different sites for
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Healing Hands: ‘Seeing People as They See Themselves’: Health Care and Access for Transgender Individuals Experiencing Homelessness
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Healing Hands: Dental and Vision Care for Homeless Patients
Though insurance plans and government-run health care plans often treat dental and vision care as supplementary, health care providers and patients know that proper oral and eye care are essential to good health. As a 2000 Surgeon General report notes, “The terms oral health and general health should not be interpreted as separate entities. Oral
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Healing Hands: Tuberculosis: A Persistent Threat to Public Health (2014)
Although the overall number of new tuberculosis (TB) cases reported in the United States continues to decline, challenges remain that impede progress toward the national public health goal of TB elimination. Initiatives to increase TB awareness, testing, and treatment of latent infection and TB disease will be critical to future TB elimination efforts, especially among
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